That John Bell

There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.

I’ve spent the better part of this afternoon figuring out an easy way to add gravatars to the Team Conquets forum.. there was a serious lack of information about it so I figured I’d make a post explaining simply how you can do it by changing the avatar function to gravatar…

That return string is your output, you may wish to add Center tags or css to it.

The default is any of the Gravatar default images, you can change that variable to whichever you prefer, including the URL to an image.. the size is the pixel size, and the rating is the maximum rating you’ll allow to be displayed.

I mentioned in a post earlier this week, Seth Godin’s Quote “In a world of too many options and too little time, our obvious choice is to just ignore the ordinary stuff”

I’m going to take some flack for this by some of the people who are earning a killing selling the same mod to you and 100 other Traffic Exchange owners, but there’s a huge thing you are missing out on by buying it.

Sure you need the now-standard stuff, like Branding options and chat, but other than that.. STOP BUYING MODS!

Every time you Buy a mod and install it on your site, you’re adding this ‘Great New Awesome Feature’ that either everyone has, or will have.

BORING!

You are in a market that is loaded with people starting up YOUR business every day. New competitors are creating websites several times a day in direct competition with you. Then they are buying the same mods as you and a week later, they have the same site with the same features as yours.

What are you going to do?

The biggest problem in our market is everyone doing the same, it’s a community of followers and they are just following the person next to them.

Every day people are generating businesses that are almost direct clones of eachother, same script, same style design, same mods.

This would work of there were only 3 of them, but there’s not. There are thousands.

How does your site stand out? Why should people use your site, instead of your neighbors?

When you have the same features as everyone else, then what’s the point of even joining your site?

Be creative, be innovative, be crazy.

Do stuff, change things, don’t’ be afraid to try something new.. because trying something new is THE ONLY way you can come out ahead in not only our market, but any business.

IT DOESN’T MATTER IF YOU FAIL!!!!

Stop being scared of failing, if you create something new and innovative, even if it sucks, people are going to notice you and talk about you. The only way to ensure you aren’t be ignored, is to be talked about, but the first step is doing something that is worth talking about.